Griefenstein Lower Austria Austro-Hungary – Antique Photo Print
![Griefenstein Lower Austria Austro-Hungary, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/72/7239b0f0be42-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Griefenstein Lower Austria Austro-Hungary, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Griefenstein Lower Austria Austro-Hungary
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Griefenstein is a castle in Lower Austria, the northeastern state that surrounds Vienna, and this print shows the site as it looked in the late 1890s. The photochrom process used to make it was developed in Switzerland, where the Photoglob company hand-colored each print through a series of stone lithographs made from a single photograph. The Detroit Publishing Company, which held American rights to the process, sold these views to American buyers as travel souvenirs, and this copy appears in its 1905 catalog of Austro-Hungarian scenes. The vivid, flat colors reflect the method rather than the actual tones of the landscape.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 9222. Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,690 × 2,723 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1648_Griefenstein_Lower_Aust_1890.tif-09180u |
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